How does an ordinary person who’s elected to the US House and Senate achieve power and influence enough to get re-elected and thus maintain a longterm political career? After all, it takes big bucks and lots of national connections. …
South Dakota gave Donald Trump a landslide victory in 2016, as did almost all the counties and rural areas across the United States. But is our Republican president getting the support he needs? Once armed with an R following…
American broadcast media has all but shut down the business of democracy by keeping public understanding locked into political soap opera. Anything to destroy the presidency is fair game in this ongoing theater of the absurd. The goal of…
by Duke Doering These October days in 1954, a prison riot at Sioux Falls led to the call-up of South Dakota National Guard units. A prison riot broke out at the South Dakota Penitentiary in Sioux Falls on…
“The sad reality is that the liberal Republicans who spend every day undermining the conservative position on a given issue are not just from swing states,” cautions GOP strategist Daniel Horowitz. “Many of them are from states that Trump won,…
“When adjusted for cost of living, Austin tech workers make more than San Francisco peers,” cites a Texas policy analyst as an example of salary shrinkage that awaits babes-in-the-woods college graduates who can be lured to California jobs by apparent…
“The U.N. fancies itself as a super-national government-in-waiting for the post-national world. The American people’s response to that smug attitude,” says former US Senator and Congressman Jim DeMint, “is a red MAGA hat.” Even more, “The UN is so…
“Vermonters love their state, but most are struggling to afford to live here. Many are paying $10,000 or more annually in real estate taxes on family land…but still the taxes escalate,” reports John Klar on a nightmare currently underway in…
Go to any Sanctuary City in America and you’ll find mindless Democratic Party fanatics living in the best, least diverse parts of the city—serene enclaves with well-manicured lawns, far from the violent turmoil of the urban core. You’ll find…
“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America,” foresaw Founding Father President Thomas Jefferson.…